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Could Saoirse Ronan finally win her first Oscar? | Ents & Arts News

September 30, 2024 by ayodhyago

Saoirse Ronan has become one of the Academy Awards’ anomalies after being nominated four times without taking home a statuette.

The American-born Irish star received her first Oscars nod at the age of just 13, when she featured in the best supporting actress category for her role in Atonement.

Since then, despite being shortlisted three times for best actress for Brooklyn, Lady Bird and Little Women, she has never won.

Now, the 30-year-old is set to compete in both the lead and supporting actress categories at the 2025 awards for her new films The Outrun and Steve McQueen’s Blitz.

If she secures one or both nominations, she would become the youngest actor to receive five, or six, nods.

Directed by Nora Fingscheidt, The Outrun, which is inspired by the life of writer Amy Liptrot, follows a Scottish woman struggling with alcoholism while living in fast-paced London.

In a bid to maintain her sobriety, she returns home to Orkney and finds herself in the process.

“Nora really wanted us to have our input in terms of who these characters were and situations that we would find them in”, Ronan told Sky News.

“We had a script that was written and the structure of it was there, but we were sort of able to fill in the gaps a little bit.”

The Scottish drama marks the first time Ronan has worked as a producer on a project and she says she took a lot from the experience.

She said: “There is a lot going on behind the scenes that actors are protected from, and sometimes I think it would be valuable for an actor to know the drama that exists when they’re not around.

“I think it might make people behave a little bit better and to know that it is sort of like a domino effect when there’s one thing that’s out of place, it really will affect everything else by you not getting on to a call at a certain time.”

She said it gave her a new appreciation for the craft.

“It’s very difficult to get an independent movie made and to try and source the money needed to just even pay people is difficult sometimes.

“So, yes, it’s just having an awareness of and the graft involved and that has definitely made me appreciate the movies that I’m on so much more where I am just an actor and I don’t have to worry about any of that stuff at all.”

The film also stars The Lazarus Project’s Paapa Essiedu as her boyfriend Daynin.

Battling with the person she has become, her character Rona returns to the Orkney Islands to try to reconnect with nature.

The Oscar nominee said sea swimming at a remote location was therapeutic for the cast and crew.

“We finished [shooting] on Papa Westray, where we had to have a micro crew. There’s 90 inhabitants on the whole island.

“We stayed in people’s homes because there’s no hotels or anything like that. We ate together every night. We walked to work like it was a very stripped back experience in terms of filmmaking.

“And I think that was sort of felt like art imitating life a little bit after all the chaos of the beginning of the shoot. To have that at the end was wonderful.”

The Outrun is in cinemas now.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: Woman accuses rapper of further sexual assault allegations in new lawsuit | US News

September 30, 2024 by ayodhyago

Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with further sexual assault allegations after a woman filed a lawsuit in New York.

In the fresh civil case, the woman – identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe – claims she was repeatedly raped and drugged at the music mogul’s homes and became pregnant after one of the encounters.

It follows a series of similar legal cases brought by women against Combs, 54, who was arrested at a hotel in New York last week on sex trafficking, drug possession and firearms offences.

The latest lawsuit was filed on Friday against Combs, his companies and several associates, and seeks undisclosed damages for physical injuries, severe emotional distress, humiliation, anxiety and other harm.

The woman claims she met Combs abroad in 2020 and that the assaults and harassment continued through to July this year.

She says she was often coerced and harassed into travelling to Combs’ homes in New York, Los Angeles and Miami and other cities, and during every visit the rapper would make her “perform a show” for him.

In one encounter alleged to have taken place in July 2022, the woman claims she blacked out after being forced to take drugs that included ketamine.

She later allegedly took a pregnancy test and told Combs it was positive. She said an associate of the music producer repeatedly demanded her to get an abortion. The lawsuit states she had a miscarriage.

The woman, who is being represented by lawyers Marie Napoli and Joseph Ciaccio, also alleges Combs and his associates tracked her location and monitored her conversations.

She claims Combs discouraged her from working and gave her an “allowance” that he used to control her.

“No one is above the law. Fame and wealth do not protect Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs from serious allegations of sex trafficking and abuse,” Ms Napoli said in a statement.

Combs has been facing civil allegations including rape, sexual assault, and forced drugging since November 2023.

He has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking but remains jailed, having been denied bail. His attorney said he is innocent and will fight to clear his name.

A lawyer for Combs did not respond to the allegations made in Friday’s lawsuit when contacted by the Associated Press news agency.

Lana Del Rey marries alligator tour guide boyfriend | Ents & Arts News

September 30, 2024 by ayodhyago

Pop star Lana Del Rey has married her alligator tour guide partner in Louisiana, according to reports.

The singer, 39, and Jeremy Dufrene, 49, are said to have obtained a marriage licence in Lafourche parish on Monday and had their wedding three days later.

Footage obtained by the Daily Mail appears to show Del Rey, whose real name is Elizabeth Woodridge Grant, wearing a white dress where Mr Dufrene works as a tour guide in Des Allemandes, south of New Orleans.

Del Rey has not commented on the reported wedding.

She met Mr Dufrene in 2019, posting pictures of her on one of his tours with the caption: “Jeremy lemme be captain at Arthur’s Air Boat Tours x.”

Arthur’s Air Boat Tours gives guided tours through the local swamps, where its website says visitors are likely to see “300 species of birds” and “alligators up close and personal”.

Mr Dufrene’s profile page says he previously worked seven days a week at a chemical plant – when he would “shrimp on vacation days”.

“After a little convincing by his family, he got his captain’s licence and started running tours,” it adds.

“Jeremy’s a great airboat captain and loves interacting with wildlife & customers.”

The couple were pictured together at Reading and Leeds festival this summer where Del Rey headlined.

She previously dated Scottish singer Barrie-James O’Neill for three years and was last linked to a police officer called Sean Larkin.

Fashion designer Jean Pallant reunited with long-lost garment after Oxfam charity shop find | UK News

September 30, 2024 by ayodhyago

A British fashion designer has been reunited with a piece that went missing almost 40 years ago after the garment was found in a charity shop.

Jean Pallant said she was “over the moon” when she was told the one-of-a-kind orange coat had turned up in a donation bag at the Oxfam store in Mill Hill, northwest London.

Shop manager Marina Ikey-Botchway made the discovery among high street fashion clothes and said she could immediately tell the garment was a priceless item.

Ms Pallant, who was part of the 1960s cultural revolution and designed clothes with her husband Martin, who died recently, said she was “very excited” by the find.

“I was absolutely over the moon, really. It was very sweet of the person who discovered it to believe that it was something important,” she said.

“It’s like seeing a child. It’s lovely. I know every single square inch of it, and I’m absolutely amazed that it looks so new, and it feels new. Everything about it looks exactly as it did when it went missing.”

She made the coat, which has large, round dark buttons, on her kitchen table in 1988 and it featured in a Sunday Telegraph article that year.

But she felt “sick” to discover the garment had gone missing, along with five other pieces which have still not been found, when she went to retrieve some clothes from her warehouse nearly four decades ago.

“When we retrieved them all, there were these pieces which I remember, of course, because they’re all my babies. These pieces were missing, and there’s nothing I can do about it,” she said.

“I’d love those to turn up. There are some really special pieces that I’d like back in our collection for our archive. Maybe they’ll turn up, who knows?

“One of them was a piece which is so important to us, which was made in 1972 I think. It was worn by me in a TV fashion show to celebrate Britain joining the common market and it was a beautiful white jumpsuit and jacket with little mink spots on it.

“I’d pay anything to get it back.”

The coat was chosen by sixties fashion model Penelope Tree to walk in Oxfam’s Style for Change fashion show, in partnership with Vinted, as part of its Second Hand September campaign.

Ms Pallant is restoring and curating a Pallant collection to give to the V&A Museum in London.

Kris Kristofferson: Country music legend and A Star Is Born actor dies | Ents & Arts News

September 30, 2024 by ayodhyago

Kris Kristofferson, the country music legend and A Star Is Born actor, has died at the age of 88.

The singer-songwriter died peacefully at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, family spokesperson Ebie McFarland said.

No cause of death was given but the musician had been suffering from memory loss since he was in his 70s.

Born in Brownsville, Texas, Kristofferson started his music career in the mid-1960s.

Despite being a singer himself, many of his songs were best known as performed by others, including Ray Price’s US number one hit For the Good Times and Janis Joplin’s 1971 single Me And Bobby McGee.

In the mid-1980s he joined forces with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings to create the country supergroup The Highwaymen, releasing three albums before all four returned to their solo careers.

Former bandmate Nelson said there was “no better songwriter alive” when talking about Kristofferson during a 2009 awards ceremony.

“Everything he writes is a standard and we’re all just going to have to live with that,” Nelson said.

Kristofferson won a Grammy Award for hit Help Me Make It Through The Night and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004.

As an actor, he won the 1976 Golden Globe Award for best actor after his performance in the romantic drama A Star Is Born opposite Barbra Streisand.

The film was a remake of the 1937 original with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was later adapted into a musical starring Judy Garland and James Mason – and subsequently again in 2018 starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

Kristofferson also appeared opposite Ellen Burstyn in Martin Scorsese’s 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and alongside Wesley Snipes in Marvel’s Blade in 1998.

From caretaker to hitmaker

Before the stage and screen, Kristofferson was a boxer with US organisation Golden Gloves, he also gained a master’s degree in English at the University of Oxford, later turning down an opportunity to teach at a US military academy in New York to pursue songwriting in Nashville.

Hoping for a break into the industry, he worked as a part-time caretaker at Columbia Records’ Music Row studio.

In a 2006 interview, Kristofferson said he might not have had a career without Cash, who he said put him on stage for the first time.

Joplin, who he had a close relationship with, changed the lyrics to make Bobby McGee a man and cut her version just days before she died in 1970 from a drug overdose. The song became a posthumous number one hit for Joplin.

In 1973, Kristofferson married fellow songwriter Rita Coolidge with whom he had a successful duet career, earning two Grammy Awards. They divorced in 1980.

The singer is survived by his wife Lisa, his eight children and seven grandchildren, Sky News’ US partner network NBC reported.

Tributes to country music legend

Dolly Parton led fans and fellow musicians and actors in paying tribute to Kristofferson.

She described his passing as a “great loss” and said: “I will always love you.”

Streisand paid tribute to Kristofferson in a post on social media, saying: “The first time I saw Kris performing at the Troubadour club in L.A. I knew he was something special.

“Barefoot and strumming his guitar, he seemed like the perfect choice for a script I was developing, which eventually became A Star Is Born.

“My thoughts go to Kris’ wife, Lisa who I know supported him in every way possible.”

Chief executive for the Country Music Hall of Fame Kyle Young said Kristofferson left “a resounding legacy.”

The likes of Grammy-winning singer Travis Tritt, Larry Gatlin and Wynonna Judd all paid tribute as well.

Baby Reindeer lawsuit against Netflix can move forward as series is not a ‘true story’, US judge rules | Ents & Arts News

September 30, 2024 by ayodhyago

A US judge has ruled hit streaming series Baby Reindeer has been wrongly billed as a “true story” and will allow a woman who says she has been identified as the real-life Martha to pursue her defamation lawsuit against Netflix.

The Emmy award-winning series follows the life of Donny Dunn, a barman and struggling comedian, who is stalked by a woman called Martha Scott, played by Jessica Gunning, with viewers being told in the opening sequence “this is a true story”.

Created by Richard Gadd – who also stars as Dunn – the series sparked an online frenzy over the real-life identities of some of the characters, with Scottish lawyer Fiona Harvey being named as the “real Martha”.

Earlier this year, Ms Harvey said she had been “forced” to come forward after receiving online death threats from “internet sleuths” – and filed a $170m (£127m) lawsuit claiming the story was inaccurate and had falsely accused her of being a convicted stalker and, due events in the show, of attacking Gadd.

Netflix filed a motion in July in an effort to get the lawsuit thrown out – but in the ruling in a Californian court on Friday, Judge Gary Klausner said “it appears that a reasonable viewer could understand the statements about Martha” to be about the plaintiff, Ms Harvey.

The judge said the show had exaggerated the actions of Ms Harvey in the show with statements of a “worse degree”.

“Each of the factors suggest that the statements would be interpreted as assertions of fact,” the ruling stated.

“While the statements were made in a series that largely has the trappings of a black comedy-drama, the very first episode states unequivocally that ‘this is a true story’.”

Ms Harvey has previously said she met Gadd when she visited a London pub for a meal, but had never heckled his comedy show, visited his home or contacted his parents.

In an interview with Piers Morgan in May, she said she had sent a handful of emails, tweeted him about 18 times and written him one letter.

The Last Dinner Party: Venue apologises to lone-male gig-goers over ‘strange’ and ‘condescending’ treatment | Ents & Arts News

September 30, 2024 by ayodhyago

A live music venue in Lincoln has apologised to some gig-goers for “unacceptable treatment” after a number of men arriving alone to watch a The Last Dinner Party show flagged “strange” and “condescending” behaviour.

The Engine Shed – which bills itself as Lincolnshire‘s largest live music venue – put out a statement on its official Instagram page to say what happened fell “far short of our venue entry policy, which requires all attendees to be treated equally and be subject to the same entry requirements”.

Ahead of the gig, which had been scheduled for Saturday night, several men posted on social media saying they had been quizzed on their knowledge of the band before they were given entry.

One fan called Dan wrote on X: “Just arrived at the gig, been funnelled into a dark corner with other men, told I might be a pervert cus I’m alone and then taken into a room alone with a security guard where I was interrogated and searched. Feel sick.”

He said he had also been asked what his favourite Last Dinner Party song was by staff.

A man called Paul wrote on X: “I rocked up there tonight at 8.45 on my own, no queue, I got asked how long I had liked them for, and to name my favourite song.

“I thought it was a bit strange and the first time I’ve ever felt like I’m on mastermind to get into a gig. Now I’ve read this I understand why now.”

He went on: “I just told him, Nothing Matters and said a line of the song and he was fine. It does sound like they were targeting single men, I wonder if there’s been trouble at previous gigs.”

A second man called Kam Zagi wrote on X: “Same here, I queued for 7 hours to get to barrier as I am 4′ 11′, got whisked away, searched, asked condescending questions, didn’t get to barrier…”

Later, commenting on the Engine Shed’s statement, he wrote: “this.is.a.disgrace [sic]. I won’t be attending any rescheduled dates based on the way I was treated last night & I am not alone.”

The Shed Engine said in its statement it had “urgently” carried out a provisional investigation, saying “ad-hoc changes” had been made to its policy due to information “provided to our security team about incidents at a previous The Last Dinner Party gig”.

The venue went on to say the policy was changed “with the right intentions”, but that it “resulted in the unacceptable treatment of some guests”.

It “fully apologised” to anyone affected and said further training would be given to staff on door entry policy as “an urgent measure… to ensure that this cannot happen again”.

The Engine Shed encouraged anyone who felt they had been discriminated against to reach out.

Around half an hour before the Lincoln performance was due to start, the Mercury-nominated band pulled out of the show, “due to a band member unexpectedly falling ill and being unable to perform”.

In another statement, the venue apologised to fans for the “last minute” cancellation, adding, “This decision was not taken lightly as the band and the promoter were hopeful that the member would recover from the illness to be able to perform”.

The band, who are currently touring the UK and Ireland, cancelled a gig in Cardiff which had been due to take place on Sunday, telling fans on social media it was “cancelled due to illness” and they were “truly sorry”.

The Last Dinner Party are next due to perform on Tuesday in Birmingham.

An indie rock band, The Last Dinner Party are made up by Abigail Morris, Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies and Aurora Nishevci, and formed in 2020 after meeting at university in London.

Last year they won the Brit rising star award, with their debut album – Prelude To Ecstasy – reaching number one in the UK albums chart when it was released in February.

Sky News has contacted the band for comment.

BBC apologises to Amanda Abbington and says ‘some’ Strictly complaints against Giovanni Pernice upheld | Ents & Arts News

September 30, 2024 by ayodhyago

The BBC has apologised to former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Amanda Abbington, saying it had assessed and “upheld some, but not all” of her complaints about Giovanni Pernice’s behaviour during her time on the show.

Sherlock actress Abbington, who pulled out of the BBC One show last year citing “personal reasons”, later claimed she was subject to a “toxic environment” and “inappropriate, mean, nasty bullying”.

In a statement, the broadcaster said: “We take any allegations of bullying and harassment very seriously and this review has taken time due to its complex nature and our desire to ensure a rigorous and robust process was undertaken.

“Strictly Come Dancing is a family show and we rightly expect very high standards. While competition can be tough, rigorous and demanding, we want the show to ultimately be a joyous and transformative experience. It is a great shame if this hasn’t been the case for everyone who has appeared on the show.

“We have assessed the complaints and we have upheld some, but not all, of the complaints made. We want to apologise to Amanda Abbington and to thank her for coming forward and taking part. We know this would not have been an easy thing to do.”

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Oasis announce 2025 tour dates for five gigs in North America | Ents & Arts News

September 30, 2024 by ayodhyago

Oasis have announced a five-gig North American tour for 2025.

The concerts add to the already planned UK and Ireland shows that will begin the band’s reunion tour next year.

The new dates announced are stadium gigs in Toronto on 24 August, Chicago on 28 August, New Jersey on 31 August, LA on 6 September and Mexico City on 12 September.

Announcing the dates on their X account, a quote read: “America. Oasis is coming. You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along.”

Pre-sale tickets will be released on 3 October, while the general sale takes place on 4 October.

The last time Oasis played in the US was on 20 December 2008, when they played the EagleBank Arena – then known as the Patriot Center – in Fairfax, Virginia.

Liam Gallagher also appeared to hint at a US tour earlier in the month, saying on X in response to a fan: “I love America and I know deep down you love ME.”

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